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Mixed technique encaustic painting with charcoal, gouache, pan pastels, oil pastels, embedded thread, and embedded pressed leaves on wooden panel. 8" x 12"
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Inspired by some Flickr-friends who asked me to show my encaustic paintings. I don't think they're special enough to show them, will need a lot more practice first - but i thought it would be a lovely idea to use them as a background for close-up shots.
So, many thanks to judi may and jm atkinson for encouraging and inspiring me!
Brenda Erickson is a paper collage artist who uses the application of hot wax called encaustic that gives her work a dreamlike quality. Read about her art journey and the encaustic process: www.allthingspaper.net/2024/06/encaustic-collage.html
Wondering what a bear's roar looks like? Surprisingly, much different from what you might expect. There's a lot more brown in the actual vision than I've used in this piece, but the lion (which I'll upload later) is a bit more accurately portrayed.
This was inspired by my recent trip to the Winston Wildlife Safari in Oregon, where I watched two captive brown bears wrestling in their enclosure. I roared out the window at one of them, and instantly, they both looked up. A second later, one of them roared back. I was so stoked! I think my boyfriend was slightly unnerved that I was talking to bears, and my mom was prepared to roll up the window in the event that I accidentally invited them home with us.
In this work, I've used a combination of pen-and-ink drawing and encaustic wax. Most of the wavy affect was accomplished by use of a blow torch. Dark streaks in the lighter purple area are created by scraping away a thin layer of wax to expose what's underneath. All the splatter paint is done by slapping two paint brushes together, one which is loaded in hot wax. I've been stung by the heat many times, but only truely burned once. The other girl who shares the encaustic supplies with me (also an amazing artist!), thinks it's funny that I say 'OW!' and then laugh every time the wax splatters onto my arms. Aside from the pain, ENCAUSTIC IS SO MUCH FUN!
Expect to see a lot more of these coming soon. I've got a lion, and I plan to do a wolf and a peacock next. I'm also still taking commissions and always love a challenge, so please feel free to contact me with requests or questions!
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Coyotes have a strange habit of showing up at tough times during my life. This has been happening for years now -- mainly since my accidental close encounter with a lone 'yote in broad daylight, which ended up in a very intense (and very awesome!) staredown. I eventually realized that I'd rather do the attacking myself, so I shouted and charged. The poor thing looked as though it wasn't sure what to do, and took off running.
The night I got home from the Cayman Islands, I heard them singing at random intervals outside my window for at least half-an-hour.
And last month, I had this odd stretch of at least nine nights in a row during which time I dreamt I was talking to them while walking through Downtown Portland.
On the night after the last dream, my friends and I had had a huge bonfire in my yard. And after roasting marshmallows, lighting off a few fireworks, and singing random punk-rock songs, we all broke into a chorus of howls and barks at 3:00 A.M., which probably woke up the creepy next-door neighbor. Normally, I would have felt bad about that, but then I just remind myself of all the times he's played his Phantom-of-the-Opera-esque piano music at odd hours.
I woke up at 6 the next morning to a coyote duet right outside my window.
And finally, on Friday night, my boyfriend and I went for an evening walk through the neighborhood and heard a chorus of coyotes at the top of the hill by the old orchard. My first reaction (suprise!) was to howl back. And after a pause, at least 4 coyotes answered back with much intensity.
I felt very at-one with my inner 'yote.
So in honor of these furry little rascals, I did a synesthesia painting based on the duet I'd heard in my yard after the bonfire party.
Normally, the coyotes I hear incorporate a lot of yips and barks into their songs, but these two didn't really seem too interested in anything but the wavering long-winded howl they're so famous for.
The lime green is the beginning of the howl which widens and swirls as it drops to blue. There's an edge to their howls as well (which, like wolf howls, looks white to me).
The yips and barks which they did throw in at the end of their little serenade were yellow and slightly orange....and very sharp. So I made them into trees to make things a little less literal.
The coyotes themselves are red, orange, yellow, and white. Historically, they are a 'warm' animal and are often represented by fire per many Native American stories and folktales. In some, they are credited as being the animal which brought light into the world.
I used a lot of fire in this one (by means of a high-powered propane torch), which is how I got a lot of the swirling design in the sky. The coyotes were hand-drawn on paper, then covered in encaustic, then layered onto the background at the end.
Possibly my favorite encaustic piece I've done yet.
I've got a HUGE commission to do next which takes priority at the moment, but I'll be happy to accept new requests and such later next week.
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I used to love metal and hard rock before I found more enjoyment in the underground scene. System of a Down seemed a lot more sophistocated to me than some of the other bands playing on the radio during those years, and this song was one which I often snowboarded to back on the mountain.
During the summer, this song was constantly stuck in my head, especially during wilderness survival camp.
So the other day when I walked into the art room and found it blaring through the speakers (I had nothing to do with this, I promise), I was convinced I had to paint it. But not everyone really appreciates System of a Down, and understandably so -- it is, after all, an aquired taste.
Lead singer, Serj Tankian, has one of the most unusual and impressive voices I've ever seen. Ranging from a lovely shade of subdued turquoise to bright yellowish-orange, and occasionally flacked with gray, it's sometimes hard to keep up with.
Most preccussion is brown, silver, gray, and black; and medium-range tones on electric guitar is violent, jagged red. There are some higher notes here which also reach lime green (one of the highest-colored notes that isn't an impossible shade of bright, bright white).
The other singer has a voice which is almost plastic blue.
And if you remember the painting I did for Seether, you'll recognize the orange coming out of the black as the sound of someone throwing their voice. It's hard to tell who's who while this is going on, since most thrown voices all sound prettymuch the same with a few unusual exceptions (including Billy Talent and Anti-Flag).
This painting was done in encuastic and will soon be listed for sale on etsy.
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A segment of a Monet-inspired tryptic from Anne Stine, on view at the Tryst Gallery (@trystgallery ), Leesburg, Virginia. #art #artwork #painting #paintings #monet #claudemonet #encaustic #encausticart #nature #water #leesburgva
Encaustic on wood - 6x6.
Mostly blowtorch and woodburning tip for outlining.
In the seventies I made my living as a candle maker for about a year. I was inspired by candles made in Montreal but was unwilling to apprentice myself to the folks in Montreal to learn how to make them, so I taught myself. It was great fun and I had a lot of success with it, but started to worry about the effects of overheated wax on my lungs and tired of lugging the heavy merchandise around so I gave it up.
In 2004 I saw some beautiful paintings in a Taos, New Mexico gallery and learned for the first time that wax could be used in a fine art form 'encaustic art.' Then I discovered my friend Silvana (http://www.flickr.com/photos/mysticmoon/3658679210/) on Flickr and was further inspired to consider encaustics.
When an introductory encaustic class was offered at Pratt Fine Arts in Seattle a few weeks ago and I took the plunge. It was pure joy to be working with wax again. I'll be doing more of it. In the meantime, these four are my fledgling efforts.